scholarly journals Introduction: The dynamics of digital communication in the Philippines: legacies and potentials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jozon Lorenzana ◽  
Cheryll Ruth Soriano
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Digital Capitalism ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Business ◽  
High Level ◽  
Networked Publics

This special issue brings together six research articles that speak to the dynamics of digital communication in the Philippines, a country firmly located in the global geography of the digital economy and an early adopter and innovator in mobile communication. Increasingly, the rise of digital platforms is spurring on new business models and applications that find a wide range of appropriations in a developing economy with a high level of communication skills and a high level of inequality. These dynamics have, in turn, fuelled the popularity of social media and the populism that has gained international attention and, more critically, taken the country into uncharted political terrain. We introduce this Special Issue by taking stock of the legacies and potentials of digital communication in the country and highlighting how the articles sustain and extend past conversations. Drawing from the articles that cover a range of topics (entertainment, intimacy, labour, journalism and politics, scandals and pornography), we identify three overlapping themes that capture the socio-technical dynamics of digital communication in the Philippines: (1) how digital communication is emplaced in material, social and structural conditions; (2) the potentials of networked publics and communication; and (3) the convertibility of capitals and emergence of new competencies. These dynamics and potentials point to the contradictions, continuities and changes that relate to Philippine modernity in the context of global digital capitalism.

scholarly journals Introduction: the dynamics of digital communication in the Philippines: legacies and potentials

2021 ◽  
Vol 179 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jozon A Lorenzana ◽  
Cheryll Ruth R Soriano
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Digital Capitalism ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Business ◽  
High Level ◽  
Networked Publics

This special issue brings together six research articles that speak to the dynamics of digital communication in the Philippines, a country firmly located in the global geography of the digital economy and an early adopter and innovator in mobile communication. Increasingly, the rise of digital platforms is spurring on new business models and applications that find a wide range of appropriations in a developing economy with a high level of communication skills and a high level of inequality. These dynamics have, in turn, fuelled the popularity of social media and the populism that has gained international attention and, more critically, taken the country into uncharted political terrain. We introduce this Special Issue by taking stock of the legacies and potentials of digital communication in the country and highlighting how the articles sustain and extend past conversations. Drawing from the articles that cover a range of topics (entertainment, intimacy, labour, journalism and politics, scandals and pornography), we identify three overlapping themes that capture the socio-technical dynamics of digital communication in the Philippines: (1) how digital communication is emplaced in material, social and structural conditions; (2) the potentials of networked publics and communication; and (3) the convertibility of capitals and emergence of new competencies. These dynamics and potentials point to the contradictions, continuities and changes that relate to Philippine modernity in the context of global digital capitalism.

Steps toward a digital ecology: ecological principles for the study of digital ecosystems

2021 ◽  
pp. 026839622110432
Author(s):  
Attila Márton
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Ecological Approach ◽  
Digital Ecosystems ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Is Research ◽  
Ecological Principles ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
New Business ◽  
New Business Models

The notion of digital ecosystems has become a fruitful metaphor for examining the effects of digitalization across boundaries of organization, industry, lifeworld, mind, and body. In business-economic terms, the metaphor has inspired IS research into new business models, while in engineering terms, it has led to important insights into the design and governance of digital platforms. Studying digital ecosystems in these terms, however, makes it difficult to trace and explain those effects of digitalization, which do not materialize predominantly in economic and engineering patterns. Important relationships and their effects may therefore go unnoticed. In response, I draw on the ecological epistemology of Gregory Bateson and others to contribute an ecological approach to digital ecosystems. Such an understanding, I argue, expands the possibilities for tracing and explaining the wide-reaching, boundary-crossing effects of digitalization and the runaway dynamics they may lead to. I suggest to do this based on three principles: (1) part-of-ness—phenomena are to be observed as always part of a larger ecosystem; (2) systemic wisdom—ecosystems have limits, which need to be respected; and (3) information ecology—ecosystems are not mechanical but informed, cognitive systems. As my contribution, I propose six avenues for future IS research into digital ecology.

Design Consideration of Sociomaterial Multi-Agent CSCW Systems

2015 ◽  
pp. 83-103
Author(s):  
Tagelsir Mohamed Gasmelseid
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Web Based ◽  
New Organizational Forms ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Business ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Share Information

The recent technological advancements have significantly redefined the context in which organizations do business processes including the processes used to acquire, process, and share information. The transformations that emerged across the organizational and institutional landscapes have led to the emergence of new organizational forms of design and new business models. Within this context, the new business patterns, platforms, and architectures have been developed to enable for the maximization of benefits from data through the adoption of collaborative work practices. The main focus of such practices is oriented towards the improvement of responsiveness, building of alliances, and enhancing organizational reach. The use of global networks and Web-based systems for the implementation of collaborative work has been accompanied with a wide range of computer-supported collaborative systems. This chapter examines the context of collaboration, collaborative work, and the development of agent-supported collaborative work system. It also examines the implications of the ontological positions of sociomateriality on agent-supported collaborative work domains in terms of the multi-agent architecture and multi-agent evaluation.

The Transformation of Traditional TVs Into Digital Platforms

2021 ◽  
pp. 102-114
Author(s):  
Hayat Ayar Senturk
Keyword(s):  
Customer Value ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Competitive Strategies ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Competition Analysis ◽  
Growth Opportunity ◽  
New Business

Digital transformation means developing new business models, unforgettable customer experiences, and competitive strategies by using digital technologies, thus creating efficiency in business processes and providing better customer value. While digital transformation is one of the important business decisions, more specifically, the pandemic and the increase in time spent at home have created a substantial growth opportunity for digital broadcast service providers. In this regard, the fact that an already growing market has increased its growth momentum with the effect of the pandemic has made the digital transformation of traditional TV media inevitable. In this study, digital broadcasting sector in Turkey has been examined in the context of strategic marketing management. In this way, by conducting the situation and competition analysis, suggestions were made regarding marketing strategies for Turkish digital platforms that have just entered the market.

Digital Transformation

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-31
Author(s):  
Chandra Sekhar Patro ◽  
K. Madhu Kishore Raghunath
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Product Reviews ◽  
Business Units ◽  
New Business ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
Business Enterprises ◽  
High Level ◽  
Effective Use

Digital transformation and innovative business models are enabling a high level of competition among business enterprises. The worldwide adoption of the internet and an increasing number of associated technologies have strengthened the digital transformation. Digital technologies allow the customers to co-create value by designing and customizing products, perform last-mile distribution activities, and help other customers by sharing product reviews. Digital transformation is an enterprise-wide phenomenon that leads to the development of new business. This is intrinsically linked to strategic changes in the business model as a result of the implementation of digital technologies models, which may be new to the focal business units or industry. The chapter articulates the influence of digital transformation on the performance of business enterprises in the competitive environment. It analyzes the barriers to the effective use of digital technologies and also the digital transference initiatives of modern business enterprises.

scholarly journals Short-term rentals as a new urban frontier – evidence from European cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (7) ◽  
pp. 1601-1608
Author(s):  
Agustin Cocola-Gant ◽  
Angela Hof ◽  
Christian Smigiel ◽  
Ismael Yrigoy
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Spatial Impacts

Papers in this special issue offer a wide range of political economy and sociological perspectives to explain the development and impacts of short-term rentals (STRs) in European cities. Empirically, they provide insights regarding STR providers, socio-spatial impacts, and regulation. Authors reveal the professionalization of the sector vis-à-vis the connection between STRs and the wider financialization of housing. STRs are predominantly supplied by professional property managers as well as by middle-class individuals for which renting on digital platforms is their main professional activity. Furthermore, the increasing professionalization of hosts and the intrinsic competition among them is largely stimulated by the business model of digital platforms which has progressively favoured professional operators. Understanding how STRs are shaped by platform capitalism helps to explain the socio-spatial impacts of this market as well as why current regulations have not mitigated such impacts. In terms of impacts, contributions to this special issue document processes of displacement, gentrification, and how the penetration of visitors in neighbourhoods is experienced by residents as a process of loss and dispossession. However, due to the lobbying campaigns of professional operators and industry players, regulation has led to the legitimization of this new market rather than to the limitation of the activity. Therefore, the special issue challenges the use of a ‘sharing economy' and ‘peer-to-peer platforms’ as analytical categories, and, instead, provides evidence of why the STR market should be seen as part of the wider expansion of platform capitalism, consolidating the neoliberal and financialized urban paradigm.

scholarly journals Introduction to special issue: ‘Life history and learning: how childhood, caregiving and old age shape cognition and culture in humans and other animals’

2020 ◽  
Vol 375 (1803) ◽  
pp. 20190489
Author(s):  
Alison Gopnik ◽  
Willem E. Frankenhuis ◽  
Michael Tomasello
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Reproductive Rate ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Cognition And Culture ◽  
High Level

This special issue focuses on the relationship between life history and learning, especially during human evolution. ‘Life history’ refers to the developmental programme of an organism, including its period of immaturity, reproductive rate and timing, caregiving investment and longevity. Across many species an extended childhood and high caregiving investment appear to be correlated with particular kinds of plasticity and learning. Human life history is particularly distinctive; humans evolved an exceptionally long childhood and old age, and an unusually high level of caregiving investment, at the same time that they evolved distinctive capacities for cognition and culture. The contributors explore the relations between life history, plasticity and learning across a wide range of methods and populations, including theoretical and empirical work in biology, anthropology and developmental psychology. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Life history and learning: how childhood, caregiving and old age shape cognition and culture in humans and other animals’.

Mapping the sharing economy for sustainability research

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 570-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederik Plewnia ◽  
Edeltraud Guenther
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Service Market ◽  
Conceptual Foundation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Professional Managers ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Business

Purpose In order to guide sustainability research on the sharing economy, the purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive framework that captures the wide range of activities and business models that are considered to be part of the sharing economy. Design/methodology/approach Based on a systematic literature review and a content analysis, existing typologies are identified and analyzed for their conceptual intersections. Finally, categorizations from 43 documents are integrated into one framework. Findings Four main dimensions are identified as being used in different contexts to characterize sharing systems and were combined to form one comprehensive typology: shared good or service, market structure, market orientation, and industry sector. Originality/value The proposed typology is able to distinguish sharing activities based on their similarities and differences. Social, economic, and communicational avenues for the term “sharing” are merged into a conceptual foundation of the sharing economy. This enables researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to position their projects in the broad field of sharing. By discussing inherent tensions with regard to sustainability of the sharing economy, the offered categorizations can help to guide future research and policy intervention. Last but not least, professional managers should find valuable ideas for new business models.

scholarly journals Exploring the Potentials of Automation in Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Paving the Way for Autonomous Supply Chains

Logistics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Benjamin Nitsche
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
New Era ◽  
Logistics Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
New Business ◽  
New Business Models ◽  
Planning Approaches

The world of logistics is changing and entering a new era. The advance of digitalization and technologization enables new business models, increased process efficiencies, novel planning approaches, and much more but, on the downside, there is also the risk of being lost in the maelstrom of developments. Within these developments, the automation of logistics processes and ultimately the design of autonomous logistics systems is one of the most defining trends that has far-reaching consequences for the planning and execution of future logistics processes. This Special Issue aims to contribute to the discussion and to get to the bottom of the question of how the path towards automated and autonomous logistics systems should be designed. This editorial lays a foundation by presenting application areas of automation and discussing the theoretical path towards autonomous logistics systems. The articles that follow provide highly practical insights into current research results on the automation and autonomization of informational and physical logistics processes.

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